Vody | The GenAI experience for retail customers | Icebreaker

Vody | The GenAI experience for retail customers | Icebreaker

Members

Gunjan Bhattarai

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I am a research engineer focused on building the latest and greatest in AI. I specialize within natural language processing (NLP) and multimodal (vision and text AI), focusing on encoder/embedding models as well as large generative models. In particular, I actively research building multimodal LLMs and custom transformer architectures. In terms of my professional experience, I’ve worked in a wide variety of different corporate environments, from startups backed by Y Combinator and AllenAI to large Fortune 500 companies. I’ve worked to train, optimize, and integrate NLP and AI across a wide variety of industries, including finance, accounting, law, education, robotics, SaaS, geotechnical engineering, marketing, sales, fashion, social media, insurance, SEO optimization, and e-commerce. I’ve also served over 100 clients as a consultant, with my clientele including startup CEOs, portfolio managers, venture capitalists, Stanford University, former Microsoft and RTL Group executives, the Father of Digital Radiography, and more.

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Jill is a Founding and General Partner of Full Stack VC and Full Stack Advsiors. She is experienced in global financial markets, institutional sales, strategic development & revenue generation with a proven track record. A three-time entrepreneur and innovation and growth strategist at all stages of innovation from ideation, venture funding and capital infusion to exit or acquisition. Jill spent her career both on Capitol Hill, World Bank and working with and advising early-stage pre-seed/seed companies on capital and high growth technology companies scale post Series A. Jill sits on several Board & Advisory Board seats. Jill is a seasoned mentor with Techstars, UCLA EMBA & Endless Frontier Labs (NYU Stern). Jill’s views on technology and innovation have been featured in The Washington Post, VentureBeat, The New York Times, BBC, Modern Luxury, Distributed Magazine, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes and Spectator.

Everett Griffiths

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I have spent time in the trenches with a lot of different technologies, but I am not interested in more Ruby or Node gigs. I have retired from PHP and Python is painful for most projects. Elixir is my current focus, but I have a healthy curiosity of Rust. I like doing things the right way, and it's nice when a technology is well-suited to the problem and it can be solved in an elegant way. Make code beautiful! Experience: 10+ years of object-oriented and functional software engineering and architecture using PHP, Python, Elixir, Rails, and Javascript using the common frameworks (Laravel, Phoenix, Flask, Rails) and relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostGreSQL, MongoDB, Couchbase). System setup and configuration of LAMP environments including AWS (EC2, S3, Route 53), Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, and custom stacks. Scaling sites for heavy traffic (e.g. society6.com, ediets.com, low.com). Plugin development for CMS's. Test driven development for apps (TDD). Repositories: * https://github.com/fireproofsocks/ Certifications: * Ethical Hacker (CEH) * Penetration Tester (CPT) * ... see below ... Content Management Systems: MODx (Evolution and Revolution), WordPress, others... Frameworks: - PHP: Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, custom - Node.js: Express - Elixir: Phoenix - Python: Flask - Ruby on Rails - GoLang: Revel Goals/Desires: Stabilize the Earth's climate Elevate humanity ... Specialties: - Communication - Integrity - Problem Solving - Paying attention to details - Test-Driving Development (TDD) - Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).

Pedro Maddens Toscano

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Product @ Vody, a GenAI startup

Diana Murakhovskaya

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Diana is a Co-Founder and General Partner of The Artemis Fund. She began her career on Wall Street, spending a decade in M&A and commodities trading at Lehman Brothers and Macquarie Bank. After catching the entrepreneurial bug, she launched a women-only networking app and quickly encountered the funding challenges faced by female founders. Motivated to close the gap, she co-founded the Monarq Incubator—the first national, funding-focused accelerator for gender-diverse founding teams. Monarq supported over 30 companies across three cohorts, which went on to raise more than $15M before its acquisition by the Female Founders Alliance in 2019. Born in Odessa, Ukraine and raised in New York City, Diana holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from The Cooper Union. Her career reflects a consistent drive to build systems that empower underrepresented founders to scale with confidence. Diana is a board member of Work&, DRESSX, Builders Patch. She is a board observer of Max Retail, Salvo Health, Simplifed, Brij, and CNote.

Supui (Tony) L.

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Software Engineer. Technologies used: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, React Native, Elixir